The Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64 uses the latest Vega 10 GPU Architecture from AMD, and boasts 64 compute units and 4096 stream processors. Standard GPU clock rate operates at 1298 MHz with a boost of 1590 MHz. It also features 8GB of HBM2 (higher bandwidth memory) at 945 MHz (effective 1890 MHz) with a memory interface of 2048-bit and a bandwidth of 484 GB/s. All-in-all, the specs does look impressive. We shall see how these numbers will equate to real-life performance.

In recent months (mostly in 2017) AMD have made headlines with their Ryzen desktop processors. It’s their comeback product in direct competition against Intel. And I have to say they did a great job. These Ryzen processors offer the best bang for your buck, in terms of performance, price and availability. Take for example the Ryzen 1800X … it could perform almost the same as the Intel Core i9-7900X, and in some cases better for literally half the price.

Registered as a trademark of Listan GmbH & Co. KG in 2002, BeQuiet! is a brand who manufactures Power Supply units, CPU coolers, PC cases, and case fans. The main target groups for products in the BeQuiet! range are PC enthusiasts and gamers as well as smaller and larger PC integrators. The company’s headquarters is in Glinde, close to Hamburg. At the present time the company also has branches in Poland, Taiwan and China. The major market of the Be Quiet! brand is Europe.

Whenever we discuss motherboards, we'll mostly be looking at models from the four big names, so we're always excited whenever we get a sample from a different, smaller manufacturer. Biostar introduced boards for AMD's Ryzen CPU series, of which we could test the Biostar Racing X370GT3. Is there new and unexpected competition?

Biostar, founded in 1986, is a Taiwanese company that mainly focuses on motherboards, graphics cards, SSDs and peripherals. The company offers Intel motherboards varying from the H110 to the Z270 chipset. On AMD's site they only offered motherboards based on the FM2+ socket, up until now. This has obviously changed with the arrival of the AM4 socket.

By now, we've seen AM4 motherboards in all shapes and sizes. The newest platform of AMD is widely available these days and it has also passed its infancy stage. The motherboards with the AM4 socket can be found in sizes starting from Mini-ITX up until full ATX. The X370 chipset offers the largest feature set for the Ryzen processors, on this socket. It's worth noting that the B350 chipset will be more than sufficient for the majority of users, in terms of features, however the X370 chipset remains the better choice for users of multiple graphics cards and multiple hard drives or SSDs.

The BitFenix Formula Gold 750 W is one of the quietest PSUs in the sub-$100 category, and it performs very well in all other areas. Its fixed cables are the only compromise - you clearly cannot have it all at such an affordable price.

A new power supply from Bitfenix recently graced our labs – the Formula Gold 750W. This is an 80 Plus Gold, non modular unit targeting the mass enthusiast audience. Bitfenix say they are using high grade components inside to deliver good electrical performance with low acoustic noise. They are releasing four models in this range – 450W, 550W, 650W and 750W. We look at the highest power model in the range today.

Colorful is one of the biggest graphics card manufacturers in Asia. We have on our review test bench today their iGame GTX 1070 Ti Vulcan X TOP, which comes with a large triple-slot, triple-fan cooler. It also includes the idle fan stop feature that many people consider essential these days.

Thanks to Corsair, we’ll be taking a quick look at their latest series of cooling fans … the Corsair LL120 RGB LED 120mm Dual Light Loop PWM Fans.

These fans uses a hydraulic bearing system (pressurized fluid), and offers some impressive numbers, this include a low noise level of only 24.8 dBA and a high flow rate of 43.25 CFM. There are a total of 12 RGB LEDs, 4 on the outer loop (or ring), and 4 on the inner loop (center motor). The PWM fan control provides dynamic speed adjustment, so you can choose to reduce the noise or maximize your airflow.

Power supply is the main grid for powering up PCs and its components. The power supply manufacturer are in numbers in market, and with high quality supplies, the competition has become even stronger. While the power consumption has been brought down by graphics card manufacturer, high end SLI/CFX setups would still be needed top of the line units; to ensure the continuous and max output of power to the components, high capacity power supplies are required. Meanwhile, to understand which platform has better output, OEMs matters. Well, there are several, popular OEMs being on the list for many years.

To start with, some top OEMs, such as SilverStone, Seasonic, CWT, Sunflower, Flextronics and etc., have been known as the top power supply makers in industry. So, if you’re looking to buy an enthusiastic series power supply, then you would need to consider looking at the OEM behind the particular unit and then make your final decision. Not to mention, the many years old OEM, Enermax had been in the field for very long. Enermax had a history of being Self-OEM its power supplies, but now, its power supplies have been manufactured via external OEM. It has acquired services of CWT in the past for Revolution XT II (I reviewed), which is, by far, one of the best Power supply OEM around the globe. Corsair HXi series is the quality example of CWT build. Not only having quality components but highly efficient units as well.

Enermax has been one of the quality PSU designer, using popular OEMs to deliver high efficiency units to end users. In September, 2017, Enermax has replaced its flagship Platimax line-up with Platimax D.F. series. The OEM for sample power supply is Channel well Technology (CWT).

In this review we'll combine two GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (MSI Gaming editions) graphics cards in a 2-way Multi-GPU setup. We'll obviously focus on Ultra HD performance as well as a micro stuttering analysis with the help of FCAT. Join us in this review where we'll once again look at everything.

In this review we'll check out the all founders' edition from Nvidia, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE. The new 1070 Ti is aimed at and against the Radeon Rx Vega 56 from AMD and obviously sits in-between the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080. In this review, we test the reference card from Nvidia which comes with that all familiar design, looks and cooler.

Satisfying the gamer with a decent budget. It's been quiet on the premium GPU front since AMD finally launched the Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 GPUs in August. Built to offer really good gaming experiences at the enthusiast-friendly 1440p resolution, their performance and pricing gave the widely available Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 GPUs something to think about.

Yet with very few partner Vega cards available and enthusiasts therefore limited to the noisy reference card, rival Nvidia hasn't been moved to do much of anything of late, ostensibly because its slew of Pascal-powered cards have continued to sell well.

Nvidia understands that RX Vega 56 poses a unique problem insofar as its performance sits between the very best, overclocked GeForce GTX 1070 GPUs and entry-level GTX 1080s, with such opportunity available due to the way in which Nvidia has limited the horsepower of the lower card. Typically, a partner-built GTX 1080 is about 25 per cent faster than the same model in GTX 1070 form, due to more shaders and faster memory, and this is the gap that Nvidia wants to fill.

Heck, getting a GPU in this place will give partners something to shout about in the premium space - GTX 1070/80 are well over a year old now. This GPU Pollyfila is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, announced last week. As usual, the easiest method of digesting what's new is to look at the specification table, so here we go.

With the official announcement made a week ago, we can today present performance figures for Nvidia's GTX 1070 Ti. This review is of the MSI Gaming 8G model, MSI's top-end 1070 Ti model, with the card priced at £489.99 here in the UK. Is this the Vega56 killer we were promised, or is it a flop? Let's find out.

Ethereum’s Byzantium Hard Fork is over and now the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card has been released. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is an interesting card for cryptocurrency fans as has 512 more CUDA cores than the GeForce GTX 1070 and still uses GDDR5 memory. When mining Ethereum the speed and latency of the memory subsystem is the most important piece of the silicon. That is why the mighty NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with GDDR5X doesn’t perform as well as the lower priced GeForce GTX 1070 when it comes to mining Ether. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition runs $399 ($379 non-FE) and the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition runs $449. Not bad considering the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 FE runs $549 ($499 non-FE) and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE runs $699.

NVIDIA Pascal's yearlong free-run in the high-end segment was finally challenged by the AMD RX Vega series, with the RX Vega 56 capitalizing on the gap between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. NVIDIA attempts to fill it with the new GTX 1070 Ti, priced at $450.

PC hardware aficionados are no doubt aware of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti we will be showing you here today. Prior to last week’s official announcement by NVIDIA, information about the card had been leaking for weeks – see for yourself. If you haven’t been keeping up on the scene, the GTX 1070 Ti is NVIDIA’s latest Pascal-powered graphics card for enthusiast gamers, that’s meant to slot in between the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, and take down the recently released AMD Radeon RX Vega 56.

For the purposes of this article, we got our hands on a pair of GeForce GTX 1070 Ti cards, a Founder’s Edition that epitomizes everything NVIDIA envisions for the card and a custom EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2, that’s packing some cool proprietary technology...

We also review the new Palit GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Super Jetstream edition. n this review, we test the card from Palit which comes custom cooled and has a custom PCB design with dual-BIOS and a few hidden surprises.

Palit's GTX 1070 Ti Super JetStream doesn't come with an overclock out of the box due to NVIDIA regulations, but it offers a large triple-slot thermal solution that delivers excellent temperatures and fan noise.

Today we have reviews of two GTX 1070 Ti aftermarket cards ready for launch - this one is the Palit Super JetStream model. If it looks familiar, that would be because we did an unboxing video of the card last week, but this review is very much focused on performance - so just how good is the Palit Super JetStream, and is it worth buying?

Cooling solution has been the significant part in PCs. There was time when users were willing to utilized stock cooling solution, the prominent example is Intel stock and still are relying, but when it comes to overclocking the chip, Intel stock only get worse and that’s where aftermarket cooling solution comes in handy. In fact, the presence of Intel stock heatsink is almost ended, especially with the induction of Intel’s Skylake series. Now, every PC has to rely on aftermarket CPU coolers.

CPU Coolers has been divided into two categories; All-in-One liquid cooler and Heatsink Tower cooler, the latter one is being very much matured since it has been here since a very long and in fact, ages before AIO. The main difference between these two are the Looks, design, quality, and technique.

Scythe is a well-known CPU Cooler manufacturer on the market. Started its business operations first in November 2002. Having several categories in its product lineup, CPU coolers have been Scythe’s best-known product line. Not the mention, the Mugen Series air coolers has been working prominent and profitable for Scythe. These days companies are shifting their efforts towards AIO coolers, as they are more in trend now. However, Scythe, on the other end, still has given no sign of trendy AIO coolers on its upcoming list. I hope Scythe would also surprise its consumers with AIO development.

So if you missed it we’ve been planning a “Ultimate RGB Build” for a while now. In our last article we went over all of the parts we planned on using in the build, and how we were going to use them. Fast-forward to now and we’ve completed the build and I have to say it looks pretty awesome! This is actually the first time we’ve done a themed build and it is great to see if come from idea to a full working PC right in front of us! In this article we will be going over the build, how it turned out, and some tips if you want to do a similar build.

Wireless networking is both a blessing and a curse. It works great at short ranges - and the speed over the years has certainly improved. The downside is that with higher frequencies that carry more data faster, the range has suffered. Companies try and beef up the antenna and use high-gain units to push signal farther, but high frequency radio waves don't penetrate obstacles as good as low frequency radio waves. The solution is to have range-extenders and that can often create a whole new set of problems.Traditional range extenders have used a different SSID and require switching to the new "network" when you get out of range of the main wireless signal. This results in dropped connections, clunky password management and often interference and hot-switching between networks if you're in a spot that has similar signal from both networks. Recent solutions have included "mesh" networks, but they are pretty expensive. The solution we are looking at today is quite affordable, claims to be very fast and works without disrupting your current network hardware. Take a look below as we uncover the TP-Link RE650.

The Xbox One X is the ultimate video game system. It sports more horsepower than any system ever. And it plays more titles in native 4K than Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro. It's just about everything you could want without investing in a gaming PC. The only problem? It's now been a year since the PS4 Pro launched, and the One X costs $500, while Sony's console launched at $400. That high price limits the Xbox One X to diehard Microsoft fans who don't mind paying a bit more to play the console's exclusive titles in 4K. Everyone else might be better off waiting, or opting for the $279 Xbox One S.

Leading up to the announcement of the Xbox One X, prominent analysts and commentators said that anything above $399 would be a death sentence for the console, despite all the technology crammed into the box. Even when you disregard the Xbox One X's $499 pricepoint, and when you factor in the price of the 4K television required to use it optimally, you know this isn't a console for everyone.

If you're looking to buy an Xbox One X, you can't just consider the 4K box itself. You also have to consider the ecosystem attached to it: games, media, and beyond. Unlike purchasing a gaming PC, with a console purchase, you're also locking yourself into a specific storefront. You're also trading the potential versatility of Windows for the out-of-the-box usability of a closed, standardized hardware ecosystem.

The Xbox One X and Xbox landscape are a whole lot different than the original Xbox One in 2013. If you're already a diehard Xbox fan, Microsoft knows you're going to buy this box. But for lapsed fans who left the platform for PlayStation 4 at the start of this generation, or Microsoft ecosystem users looking to jump in for the first time, the Xbox One X is by no means a guaranteed win. Here's why.

At E3 2016, Microsoft announced something new that it was working on, codenamed Project Scorpio. The company promised gaming in True 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR), and little more. At E3 2017, the firm finally took the wraps off of the Xbox One X (pronounced 'EX'), confirming that it will cost $499 and be available in November.

For most, availability is just a few days away at this point, but I was lucky enough for Microsoft to send me a unit last week. To answer any questions that you might have, yes, it's a wonderful experience.

Of course, there are no Xbox One X exclusives, only games that have been enhanced for the console. So, is it really worth shelling out $499? Read on to find out.